] reagan -- in the 1994 offering of first, terrorism was becoming more deadly. -- in the 1990's. first, terrorism was becoming more deadly. suicide attacks were becoming more common, and the bipartisan national commission pointed out that all of the known terrorists were conducting programs to acquire or had acquire weapons of mass destruction. in the case of iraq, if not only acquire weapons of mass destruction, but it had used it against his own people. the program continued just recently when israelis on the nuclear and now they're thin syria, and the iranian program continues today. i will have a lot more to say about iran and a minute. these new terrorists must have a different motive from all terrorists, because they are completely different. what do we know about the motives? we know a lot, because terrorists sought a lot about their motives. lisa -- they started talking about it in the late 1980's's. these islamic extremists affect an extreme version of his long they define as being at war with the west. for two decades in the statements they have issued thurman they have